‘At what exact point did you decide you weren’t going back to live in the UK?’ Richard asked. What was the trigger huh? Well, you know, it wasn’t when I got my fiftieth pile of clean clothes back from the laundry people. It wasn’t when Alula went to play with our neighbour’s family. No, the …
The only thing I have to complain about vis a vis Bali is the price of tampax. We’re talking $9US for a box of 8. That’s surely criminal. Some customs man is definitely getting rich off the pain of others. I wrote down tampax importing business on my list of ‘possible ways to find money …
‘It’s interesting reading about the election in the UK isn’t it?’ Richard says. ‘Er. No. Actually. It isn’t.’ When I think of the UK I just think grey. And Cameron. And having to do my own laundry. ‘So do you think you’ll go back?’ he asks ‘You know Rich,’ I say, ‘I just can’t see …
The question ‘Can we live here?’ becomes rhetorical in Bali. Like it’s followed by a silent ‘Do bears shit in the woods?’ Can we live here? What do you reckon? The neighbours live in a 200 year old teak house. John looks at it. ‘I feel bad. It’s like they’re living in the potting shed.’ …
Right that’s it. We can never come back. And not just because we’ve rented the house indefinitely and gone and resigned. Nor because the tories are about to come to power and I am standing on principle (because lets face it I don’t have many of those). No. We can’t come back because Lula in …
When I was seventeen I made my boyfriend at the time kiss me. He had pustular tonsillitis. I ended up in an isolation unit on an IV drip. But I did get out of taking my A’level mocks. I use this as an example of how far I will go to avoid doing things I …
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